Winner of the 2011 Dartmouth Medal, 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair Digital Award,2011 Bookseller FutureBook Award for Best Website, and the 2013 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Electronic Reference Award, the Berg Fashion Library is the only resource to provide integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion throughout history. Invaluable for scholars, students, professionals, and anyone interested in dress, it includes the Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, an extensive E-Book collection, a vast image bank, extra reference resources and more.

August 27, 2014

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. has partnered with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). With this exciting addition to the Berg Fashion Library the Museum will be sharing 1,500 high quality images from their world-renowned Costume and Textiles collection, to go live in 2015.

New content

• 1,000 new images, from the Commercial Pattern Archive and the Philadelphia Museum of Art• 2 new lesson plans and 1 bibliographic guide• 7 online exclusive articles• 1 new e-book and 6 new journal issues, including the newJournal of Textile Design Research and Practice

Discover The Flying Saucer Dress

Discover New Content

Discover Australian Textiles

Discover Designers

Discover A New Image Partner

Discover Online Exclusives

Issey Miyake at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

There are many gems in the Philadelphia Museum of Art collection at the Berg Fashion Library. Issey Miyake's 'flying saucer dress' is one of them: an eccentric, deceptively fragile collapsible dress inspired by American sculptor Isamu Noguchi - close friend, hero and mentor.

The Merino Wool Industry

One of Australia's most significant products for the international market has been Merino wool. While Australia is home to only a small proportion of the world’s sheep, it produces almost two-thirds of the world’s Merino wool and around 95 percent of its fine and superfine apparel wool.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

Bloomsbury is delighted to announce a new partnership with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), to make 1,500 images of their outstanding Costume and Textile collection available through the Berg Fashion Library.